Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/October/October 21

• 1530: birth of Jacques Jonghelinck, sculptor, patron of Pieter Bruegel the Elder
• 1930: birth of Fred De Bruyne, cyclist and sports commentator, winner of Paris–Roubaix in 1957
• 1955: birth of Frank Vandenbroucke, politician, former chairman of the Socialist Party, as of 2006 minister of education in the Flemish government
• 1981: death of Wilfried Puis, soccer player, selected 49 times for the Belgium national football team
• 2003: Gustaaf Joos, priest, is elevated to cardinal by Pope John Paul II with whom he had studied and had befriended